A Study on Occupational Stress and its Impact on Quality of Work Life

Abstract

Present era is characterized by changes that are transporting human civilization from one epoch to another at a much faster pace than experienced by human history ever before. In fact, a new civilization seems to be emerging in our lives all over the world. The idea was articulated by Alvin Toffler (1980) who describes this powerful tide of revolution as the Third Wave of change surging across the world. He observed a startling sense of it when he wrote: This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving and living; a new economy; new political conflicts; and beyond all this, an altered consciousness as well. The key to such an extra ordinary change is, of course, the computer coupled with new advancements in electronics and communication technology. These technologies multiply the means and powers of spreading the new developments in different fields at different nook and corners of the world. Readymade information easily tapped from internet and other information technology sources trembles all spheres of human life and all systems of human activity like marketing, engineering, management and so on. Information has become the vital resource, valuable input and a super power for societal development. The future society will be functioning around the axis of information values rather than material values. Knowledge capital will predominate over material capital in structuring the national economy.